Re: [Lift] getting started feedback

2010-01-22 Thread jlist9
I second this. In general I find the getting started guide very helpful. It explains a lot of key concepts step by step. I'd just like to mention a few things to be considered for future improvements: 1. it's nice to have the default menus in the sample to do project but it looks like a little

Re: [Lift] An experience report using Scala Lift

2010-01-19 Thread jlist9
I'm new to maven so I just followed the Lift Getting Started guide, which uses mvn jetty:run to start jetty and ctrl-c to stop it. I used sbt before for another project that uses a different framework and like it that it auto-compiles the changed files and restarts jetty (as far as I remember -

Re: [Lift] An experience report using Scala Lift

2010-01-18 Thread jlist9
Thanks. The Eclipse incremental compiler, Jetty the JRebel plugin makes for fairly rapid turnaround times. This is interesting. I wonder if there are instructions somewhere online about how to use Eclipse + sbt + JRebel for Lift development. The Lift Get Started Guide mentions a lot of start

Re: [Lift] Re: CMS or wiki built with Lift?

2009-12-20 Thread jlist9
On Dec 21, 7:24 am, jlist9 jli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I haven't found anything when I searched but I'd like to double check here - is there an open source CMS (content management system) or wiki system built with Lift? I need to update a simple site and I'm hoping that I can learn Lift

Re: [Lift] Getting Started 'todo' fails - smack.jar

2009-12-04 Thread jlist9
I'm just curious why is smack required. Does Lift use XMPP? Or is it there in case someone uses XMPP in an application? On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:23 AM, David Biesack david.bies...@sas.com wrote: While helloworld works (mvn jetty:run) from http://liftweb.net/docs/getting_started/mod_master.html,

Re: [Lift] Getting Started 'todo' fails - smack.jar

2009-12-04 Thread jlist9
I see. Thanks David. It's good to know that lift has interfaces for all those interesting libraries, although it sort of makes lift-core sound more like lift-libs :) On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:13 AM, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:06 AM, jlist9 jli

Re: [Lift] derby

2009-11-27 Thread jlist9
I see. Thanks Derek. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Derek Chen-Becker dchenbec...@gmail.com wrote: Derby has inferior support for binary data types (32k limit) and has a couple of other issues that I can't remember off the top of my head. On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:54 PM, jlist9 jli

Re: [Lift] derby

2009-11-27 Thread jlist9
That's good to know. Thanks! On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:50 AM, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: I needed to do a lot more work arounds for Derby in Mapper/Schemifier... H2 was more true to the SQL spec. I have had a few instances of Derby databases getting corrupt during

[Lift] Re: Impossible to use Mapper on GAE?

2009-11-27 Thread jlist9
Still seeking an answer. I notice that the lift GAE example has a database demo. Does it use Mapper and read from/write to bigtable? http://lift-example.appspot.com/database On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM, jlist9 jli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I read from the list that Mapper is not supported

Re: [Lift] Re: Impossible to use Mapper on GAE?

2009-11-27 Thread jlist9
wanted to use bigtable. Cheers, Tim On Nov 27, 7:52 pm, jlist9 jli...@gmail.com wrote: Still seeking an answer. I notice that the lift GAE example has a database demo. Does it use Mapper and read from/write to bigtable?http://lift-example.appspot.com/database On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:51

Re: [Lift] Re: Impossible to use Mapper on GAE?

2009-11-27 Thread jlist9
not work with big table ;-) Cheers, Tim Sent from my iPhone On 28 Nov 2009, at 00:43, jlist9 jli...@gmail.com wrote: Oh. I thought bigtable is the only datastore available on GAE? On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Timothy Perrett timo...@getintheloop.eu wrote: I cant think of a reason

Re: [Lift] Re: Impossible to use Mapper on GAE?

2009-11-27 Thread jlist9
I see. Thanks. That explains it. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Atsuhiko Yamanaka atsuhiko.yaman...@gmail.com Hmmm. I wonder how the database demo in the lift GAE demo was implemented... is the source available somewhere? http://lift-example.appspot.com/database It is running with H2

[Lift] Impossible to use Mapper on GAE?

2009-11-26 Thread jlist9
Hi, I read from the list that Mapper is not supported on Google App Engine (I see people use JPA instead.) I wonder if this is a matter of non-existent drivers, or there are some fundamental issues that make it impossible? Thanks, Jack -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [Lift] derby

2009-11-26 Thread jlist9
Hi David, Would you care to elaborate in what way Derby is inferior? I understand H2 is probably faster as speed is one of its main design goals. Does Derby have any other issues? Are there any potential issues with using H2 for production? Thanks, Jack Derby is inferior in every way to H2

[Lift] H2 Database?

2009-11-21 Thread jlist9
Hi all, I'm planning for a simple project that involves a small web site and database. I plan to use Lift for the web part so that I can learn it. For database, I'm interested in H2 database for its speed and flexibility. I've seen H2 database mentioned a few times on the list. I wonder if those

Re: [Lift] Re: H2 Database?

2009-11-21 Thread jlist9
) openOr      org.h2.Driver    val dbUrl: String = Props.get(db.url) openOr    jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/~/databasename On 11月22日, 上午9時30分, jlist9 jli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm planning for a simple project that involves a small web site and database. I plan to use Lift for the web

[Lift] Re: Milestone 7 released

2009-11-05 Thread jlist9
Congrats on the new release! Just curious - what are the differences between Lift Actor and Akka Actor when used locally? On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Charles F. Munat c...@munat.com wrote: The Lift Web Framework team is pleased to announce the lift-1.1-M7 release! Lift is an expressive

[Lift] Is there a built-with-lift list?

2009-10-24 Thread jlist9
Hi all, I'd like to check out some sites/libraries built with Lift, open source or commercial. I wonder if there is a list somewhere? Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to

[Lift] Re: How can i store GBK charactor into the DB ?

2009-10-24 Thread jlist9
It sounds like you aren't converting GBK encoding to UTF-8 before you store the text? On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Neil.Lv anim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,   I have a silly question about the Character Encoding in lift.   My table is charset is utf8 in database.   ###   CREATE

[Lift] Re: How can i store GBK charactor into the DB ?

2009-10-24 Thread jlist9
,  Neil On Oct 25, 1:34 am, jlist9 jli...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like you aren't converting GBK encoding to UTF-8 before you store the text? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post

[Lift] Re: How can i store GBK charactor into the DB ?

2009-10-24 Thread jlist9
the character using the encoding UTF-8 automaticly ? Cheers,  Neil On Oct 25, 1:51 am, jlist9 jli...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not familiar with how Lift handles strings but if the encoding conversion is what's missing, check out the Java String class, look for work encoding or charset in java doc

[Lift] Re: Proposal : Lift ticketing system

2009-10-24 Thread jlist9
CMS, wiki, blog, forum also sound more interesting than bug tracking system to me :-) On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:13 AM, aw anth...@whitford.com wrote: I don't mean to be negative, but are other options being considered besides a ticketing system?  I kind of wonder if the effort is worth it

[Lift] Re: Is there a built-with-lift list?

2009-10-24 Thread jlist9
Oh I think it'll be very helpful to have one, from the perspective of someone new to Lift. People would want to see the capability of a framework before they adopt it. The demo is very nice but real sites are more convincing. On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:47 AM, David Pollak

[Lift] Re: Is there a built-with-lift list?

2009-10-24 Thread jlist9
://nofouls.com/ http://innovationgames.ocm http://udorse.com/ On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:24 AM, jlist9 jli...@gmail.com wrote: Oh I think it'll be very helpful to have one, from the perspective of someone new to Lift. People would want to see the capability of a framework before they adopt

[Lift] Re: A Critique On Lift

2009-10-23 Thread jlist9
and continue with my learning. And indeed, this is a very friendly and helpful list. jlist9 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com

[Lift] Re: A Critique On Lift

2009-10-23 Thread jlist9
It's often hard to describe some (I'd say most) of the Scala syntax if you want to search for an answer online. It would be great if the eclipse plugin can tell you what the code is trying to do and what kind of syntax is that, for example, linking an operator back to a method name. On Fri, Oct

[Lift] Re: A Critique On Lift

2009-10-22 Thread jlist9
Yes. Typically one will only see a couple of Java-y Scala samples in the tutorials to show that you can write Scala the Java way to encourage Java developers to pick up Scala. However, in any real world applications and libraries you'll only see Scala-y Scala and that's where the disconnect is.

[Lift] Re: A Critique On Lift

2009-10-22 Thread jlist9
/demystified to make it easier to pick up and use. jlist9 On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:04 AM, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: I've drafted a couple of different versions of a response to this message and they all seem somewhat mean and/or condescending... that is not at all my intent

[Lift] Re: A Critique On Lift

2009-10-22 Thread jlist9
Perl's motto is There is more then one way to do it. I remember reading somewhere that part of the the design goal of Perl 6 was to make the language more sane. That says it all. For scripting language, I'd stick to Python, whose syntax feels natural to me, and to stay sane as much as I can.

[Lift] Re: A Critique On Lift

2009-10-21 Thread jlist9
override def validations = validPriority _ :: super.validations This is a more of a comment about Scala than one about Lift - this does look cryptic to me. And this is just one of the simpler syntax that confuses people, who are new to the language. And I'm one of them. I understand that you

[Lift] Re: Question about the Getting Started Guide

2009-09-30 Thread jlist9
-jetty-plugin/artifactId configuration contextPath//contextPath /configuration /plugin Could you please ensure this config under build - plugin section in your pom.xml and retry? Cheers, Indrajit On 30/09/09 10:09 AM, jlist9 wrote: I just tried

[Lift] Question about the Getting Started Guide

2009-09-29 Thread jlist9
Hi, I'm new to Lift. I'm trying to follow the getting started guide to build the first simple demo.helloworld project. At the end of Maven command output I see BUILD SUCCESSFUL. However, when I run mvn jetty:run, I get error: The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jetty-plugin' does not

[Lift] Re: Question about the Getting Started Guide

2009-09-29 Thread jlist9
. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:11 PM, jlist9 jli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm new to Lift. I'm trying to follow the getting started guide to build the first simple demo.helloworld project. At the end of Maven command output I see BUILD SUCCESSFUL. However, when I run mvn jetty:run, I get error

[Lift] Re: Question about the Getting Started Guide

2009-09-29 Thread jlist9
, 2009 at 9:11 PM, jlist9 jli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm new to Lift. I'm trying to follow the getting started guide to build the first simple demo.helloworld project. At the end of Maven command output I see BUILD SUCCESSFUL. However, when I run mvn jetty:run, I get error: The plugin